[Remote] VP Finance

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Bastion is a company that builds regulated financial infrastructure for modern businesses. They are seeking a VP of Finance to develop scalable finance systems and processes, manage regulatory reporting, and drive strategic financial planning.

Responsibilities

• Immerse yourself in Bastion's financial infrastructure
• Review all active regulatory reporting obligations—understand what gets filed, when, with which regulators, and who currently prepares each submission
• Meet with Legal, Compliance, and Risk to understand the regulatory landscape that drives your reporting obligations and how the regulatory environment is expected to evolve
• Partner with the team to understand their domains, where handoffs happen, and where accounting and treasury workflows need tighter integration
• Review the current FP&A cadence: how budgets are built, how actuals are tracked against plan, what visibility leadership and department heads have into their spending, and where the gaps are
• Run the month-end close process and drive improvements: reduce cycle time, improve accuracy, eliminate manual workarounds, and establish a close calendar that the team can execute reliably every month
• Take ownership of all regulatory reporting: ensure every filing is accurate, complete, and submitted on time. Build the review and sign-off process so that regulatory submissions don't depend on a single person's institutional knowledge
• Build the FP&A rhythm the business needs: monthly budget-vs-actual reporting, department cost allocation, variance analysis, and the financial visibility that department leads and leadership currently lack
• Own the annual planning process: build the financial model, facilitate department-level budgeting, and produce the plan that connects revenue targets to headcount to burn rate to runway
• Prepare the finance function for increasing regulatory complexity: as the company's regulatory footprint expands, ensure that reporting capabilities, controls, and processes scale ahead of the requirements rather than scrambling to catch up
• Develop your team: assess capabilities, identify gaps, make hiring recommendations, and build the finance organization that the company will need over the next 12-18 months

Skills

• Experience in accounting and financial reporting
• Ability to drive strategic financial planning
• Experience building FP&A capabilities
• Ability to partner with leadership on business decisions
• Background from a controller or senior accounting role
• Meaningful exposure to strategic finance
• Comfortable reviewing journal entries
• Ability to present financial analysis to the board
• Experience in highly regulated industries, particularly financial services
• Preference for candidates based in NYC
• Open to candidates across the United States

Benefits

• Offers Equity

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